04/20/08

An ode to the knuckleball, a truly screwy pitch. Few pitchers are able to throw the knuckler, giving those who can a cult-like status. It generally requires very large fingers. As Hall of Famer Willie Stargell explained it, "Throwing a knuckleball f ...

A photogenic drawing** that was assumed to have been made in the late 1830s may have actually been created 40 years earlier, making it one of the oldest photographic prints in existence. Like the lost plays of Aeschylus that were written about but d ...

I missed this earlier this week: physicist John Wheeler has died at the age of 96. A snippet from the NY Times obituary: At the same time, he returned to the questions that had animated Einstein and Bohr, about the nature of reality as revealed by t ...

The Droste effect is when a product's packaging features the packaging itself. At my grocery store I could only find three examples: Land O'Lakes Butter, Morton Salt and Cracker Jacks. These packages each include a picture of the package itself and ...

An analysis of the Colbert Bump, the jump in sales that follows an author's appearance on The Colbert Report. (via plasticbag) (link)

deusx : 5 reasons I won't be getting on the open id train - Warpspire - "My problem is how OpenID full on assaults user experience." Tags : critiques openid

cobra libre : Bulgogi Kio Yoshi Enchantment product appeared wow! - "People around the same time presence 'That was a hell?? Karrubi, or marbling it!'"

philgyford : Your London - Living - "This website lets you search for food businesses across London to find out the hygiene rating they achieved from their last food hygiene inspection." Am I Being Poisoned Or Not? (via Haddock) Tags : food ...

philgyford : Postcard from Provence â—Š a painting a day â—Š a daily painting blog - He paints a painting every day and then auctions it. Lovely paintings. Something like this has been my exit strategy for a while (assuming I found time to improve at ...

philgyford : TweetDumpr - Exports all your Twitters to a CSV file. (via MegP) Tags : csv top twitter via:megp

good talk slides

I like the use of RSS and Yahoo Pipes

"Yahoo has been accelerating its open activities of late..."

this reminds me of my diet plan...

Automatic Offsite Backup

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Yesterday I needed to know when Daylight Savings Time started and I hit the first link Google gave me. The default (you can switch) presentation is via something called SpicyNodes. SpicyNodes is a zesty way to explore information on the Web. W ...

Revolution WordPress Theme: I have to say that I’m really smitten with this guy’s WordPress themes. He’s selling them, and he’s used them to hot-rod WordPress into several different vertical platforms. The Revolution them ...

Clinton's Attack Ad DES: On the heels of Bruce Springsteen's endorsement of Barack Obama, Slate V dreams up the perfect attack ad for Hillary Clinton.

I bought the last MacHeist Bundle back in January and continue to use the Apps everyday. Now MacHeist has raised the bargain again and turned it into both an online and Retail bundle. So you can buy it online or pick it up in stores. The bundle inclu ...

An anonymous reader writes "CNET News has a piece in which AT&T claims that the Internet's bandwidth will be saturated by video-on-demand and such by 2010. Says the AT&T VP: 'In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traf ...

spagiola writes "The Dilbert.com website just got an extreme makeover. Gone is the old, rather clunky but perfectly functional, website, replaced by a Flash-heavy website that only Mordac the Preventer of Information Services could love. Users have b ...

mikesd81 writes "News.com reports Microsoft has finally started offering an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works in some countries. Users who run the software see a small ad as they are writing their document or editing their spreadsheet. Although th ...

An anonymous reader writes "Repeated requests toward the Wikileaks staff regarding their use of PGP have gone unanswered. The current public PGP key posted has been expired since November 2nd, 2007. A response on their PGP talk page notes that the 'S ...

MaineCoasts writes "The Times Online reports that European sellers of the iPhone are braced for 'significant losses' on unsold inventories of first-generation iPhones which must be cleared away for the new 3G versions expected in June. The three Euro ...

Lantrix writes "An anonymous user added information to Wikipedia's entry on Sacha Baron Cohen three days before the now-referenced external article was written. The Independent wrote the referenced article apparently using Wikipedia as the source est ...

Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a "final warning" to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare "open war until liberation."

Pope Benedict XVI focused on the future of his American church Saturday as he marked the third anniversary of his election as pontiff, rallying young people, priests and seminarians and assuring them of his support as they dealt with the damage from ...

President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday they still expect North Korea to fully declare its nuclear weapons programs and proliferation activities in a way that can be verified. Bush tamped down assertions that the U.S. is ...

The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global.

The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.

Reuters - While the global credit crunch has forced many consumers to rein in spending, one Beijing-based billionaire has splashed out a record $500,000 on 27 bottles of red wine, London-based Antique Wine Company said on Saturday.

Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for Edna Parker's long life. Or maybe just good genes explain why the world's oldest known person will turn 115 on Sunday, defying staggering odds.

A former mayor of a California high desert town and his wife have been sentenced to 6 months in jail for the theft of more than $20,000 from Little League coffers.

Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already an old salt.

PAOLI, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday of shifting positions and waging a negative campaign as the two candidates sped across Pennsylvania before next week's potentiall ...

There was a time a long time ago when I would log into Kuro5hin and I'd see that a known name had posted a new diary. I'd go over, read what they had to say, and post some comments. Then I'd go over to the story queue, make some suggestions on spelli ...

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urges African leaders to do more to address the crisis in Zimbabwe.

I’m delighted to say that online bookstores are shipping copies of Here Comes Everybody today, and that it has gotten several terrific notices in the blogosphere: Cory Doctorow:Clay’s book makes sense of the way that groups are using the ...

A look back at the week that was ... · We think we've exhausted all the Passover jokes ... for now. · Finally, some "Top Shelf" entertainment that we would actually put on our top shelf. (It will be more comfortable up there.) · ...

An ode to the knuckleball, a truly screwy pitch. Few pitchers are able to throw the knuckler, giving those who can a cult-like status. It generally requires very large fingers. As Hall of Famer Willie Stargell explained it, "Throwing a knuckleball f ...

For the last few weeks, I've been spending every Friday with a small group of brilliant geeks — Rael Dornfest, Asha Dornfest, Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, and Adam Greene — for a weekly one-day hackathon. We call it Bottlecap Labs, a ...

Illustrators up in arms. Darren De Lieto, owner of Little Chimp Society, recently received word that his work and the work of 93 other illustrators has been used without permission in a dubious 350-page book entitled Colorful Illustrations 93ºC ...

Unintentionally funny voice acting in old school computer games.

Brother from Another Planet (Pts. 2, 3, and 4) is a documentary about Sun Ra and his Arkestra(s) on YT. It features interviews with Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, John Sinclair, and several members of the Arkestra as well as several live clips and scen ...

"We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, [and 32 other men], All of lawful age, and inhabitants of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex...do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth [of April] in the morning, being informed that...a body of r ...

Euro hits $1.596.While more than a little distressing for those of us who like to travel to Europe and consume some of their elitist export products, it's probably otherwise a good thing for the US economy as it'll prop up our exports. Hopefully.

It's depressing that this Congress really is incapable of doing the right thing. The Senate proclaimed a fierce bipartisan resolve two weeks ago to help American homeowners in danger of foreclosure. But while a bill that senators approved last week w ...

Something Awful eschews humor in this week's Comedy Goldmine for gibbering madness. "I know you were coming here expecting to laugh at the Comedy Goldmine this week. Well, you're screwed....

"It's the Bizaro Ethel Merman." "She's like a garbage bag full of fighting Muppets back from the dentist." "It's like the little exorcist girl stung by bees." "The first time...

A short film in which a Paris Hilton-esque socialite is revealed to be the architect of her own loopy attempts at notoriety, and who will go as far as she...

There's been some confusion about why I tell company reps, when I'm pretty sure I'm going to write up the experience, that I'm a blogger. I say it because I would want to know, if I were in their shoes, that what I was saying was going to be reported ...

For the third time in three days, my Comcast service is out. — — I'm posting this using my EVDO modem. — — The first time it was deliberate. The second time they say it was natural. I'll let you know what it is this time.
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.... OMG how effing adorable! XDD see more crazy cat pics And how sad! see more crazy cat pics -saves to favorites- ....

What is stackoverflow.com? Nothing, yet. But here's the concept: Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. Instead, they happily program ...

Registration is now open for Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software conference). Neil has lined up great speakers: Seth Godin, Business Week's "Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age", is the best-selling author of 7 boo ...

insane, you can telnet to Firefox and control it with any scripting language  

removes all dialogue from a 1938 film; also, I just updated the list of supercuts  

From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest do ...

the Internet is a giant Linksys router in the desert  

in 1995, I thought VR would be huge and Apple was in a death spiral  

expertly-written history of the subject, from Eliza to Inform 7  

after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday  

The Toronto Public Library system is just kicking off a gigantic, ambitious speculative reading series that starts next Monday with Michael Skeet hosting a panel discussion with Karl Schroeder, James Alan Gardner and Peter Watts on the pursuit of for ...

Livejournal's Ceruleanst's produced a couple of passages' worth of Pulp Fiction, as written by William Shakespeare: J: And know'st thou what the French name cottage pie? V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue? J: But nay, their tongues, for ...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, as conducted by ABC: LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently ha ...

Oki Matsumoto of Monex sent me another interesting GDP slide supporting the idea that IT is equalizing GDP per capita.OkiBefore the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the world was in ratio to the population of each country. ...

Over at the Web Difference class blog, I've posted my qualms about posting here (i.e., at Joho) some thoughts about the course. Very circular and self-involved, I know. Anyway, the question over at the Web Difference blog is whether a teacher shou ...

Michael Abbott of The Brainy Gamer is putting together an undergraduate seminar on the history of the RPG (fun!), and the whole process of deciding what games to include and the reasons for that is pretty interesting — admittedly, I find syllab ...

From the Best of Craigslist in Raleigh, N.C., here's an ode to true love that, to non-gamers sounds about like Survivor's "The Search is Over." But this should melt the heart of any girl who has taken controller in hand and crusaded against unrelenti ...

Red, yellow and blue cars are on their way in a hurry to the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

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The Weather Underground, a radical group prominent in the turbulent 1960s and '70s, has suddenly reappeared on the political scene. Attempts to tie both Democratic candidates to the group are creating buzz on the White House trail.» E-Mail This ...

NASA offers High Definition views of Earth from space. Originally from SPACE.com, ReBlogged by GOOD on Apr 18, 2008 at 09:32 PM

The mercenary tactics of pre-med students can be tremendously annoying, but these students may be victims of a broken system. The standards for medical school admissions are so stringent that scholars must nearly abandon their individuality and give ...